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November 06, 2018

Bracing For The Evening News

OK, we're settling in for a long march to... well, I guess we'll all find out where when we get there.

I do think that in terms of brand extension and cross-marketing opportunities, Rachel should think about bottling her tears. The 2016 vintage would have been priceless. My goodness, late in the evening of Trump Ascendant she rambled on about uncounted votes here and a recount there and a possible landing by extra-terrestials on the Washington Mall all taking us to a Hillary victory. The look on co-anchor Brian Williams face was priceless - reflective, pentitent, and clearly revisiting the life choices that had led him to this moment.

If we can get another 2012 Megyn Kelly type moment when the Foxies got in Karl Rove's face on behalf of their Decision Desk, I will pay extra.

Trump is counting on Russia’s help to rig the booths as they did in the 2016 prez election.They flipped just enough votes on a precinct by precinct level to eek out an EC victory as per data provided by Cambridge Analytica.

Funny black dude responds;

Yep, you’re right. They were in my booth when I was voting. My hand went to vote for Hillary then all of a sudden....BAM! I was voting for Trump. Thank heaven the Russians were there to keep me from making a huge mistake!

FWIW: BART is pretty clean these days. I rode it to SFO from North Berkeley with a transfer near downtown Oakland... that station was outdoor, litter and vagrant free, and no sign of any loaf pinching inside or outside of any of the cars.

Since we will have to put up with effluent overflow on this blog for the election results, I am moving to another more protected site. Wish TM could do the same here. It truly ruins the home town friendly experience you have come to expect.

Maybe the results will discourage him/it from posting but I doubt it. He wins. I am leaving for other environs. Enjoy the sewer.

Berkeley used book scene: if i want to tear my hair out over traffic in downtown Berkeley my go to is Pegasus Books on Shattuck.

There are 8 mini-free library installations within a 5 block radius of our home on Euclid Avenue.

Anya walks recently netted "Dog Lover's Guide to the Bay Area". the Complete Works of Samuel Johnson, and Black Rain (post-Hiroshima tale from a Japanese citizen's point of view).

i am dropping books in these mini-libraries each week from my yuge collections in cultural affairs, foreign policy, anthro, native american law and culture, online business, and copywriting. gotta thin the herd. they don't last long in these mini-braries.

Please, I beg people, when posting results, add (R) or (D) after the candidates' names. Not everyone knows the name of every candidate in every race. I suppose this "rule" can be relaxed in cases where there's extensive back-and-forth about particular people.

I will pay attention starting @ 8- 9:00PM California time. Nothing meaningful until then. Hopefully we will be getting slightly tipsy as we did in 2016 waiting for Hillary to come up on stage and concede. Wasn't that just such a precious moment? I still tear up slightly with glee.

It was the Panhandle that tipped Florida as I recall. Overwhelmingly red.

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First House calls of the night - Shalala picks up FL 27 and Wexton wins VA-10. Neither is a surprise. Curbelo behind by 2,600 votes, less than 2%. Too close to call. Brat ahead slightly, but suburbs where he polls poorly reporting less.

It’s mind boggling to imagine the voters are that stupid and throw away all the accomplishments of the last two years in favor of the lies and slanders and madness and hatred of the Dems/ MSM, but they may be.

It’s mind boggling to imagine the voters are that stupid and throw away all the accomplishments of the last two years in favor of the lies and slanders and madness and hatred of the Dems/ MSM, but they may be.))

Me too, James.
Virginia is being ground down.
I hate the Washington Post....they are a poison for this state. `

i'm here at Paw's retirement community in West Lynchburg. it's nice. they have a lovely home here with a pretty nice package for financing independent living, assisted, and end-stage care. they are both well-off and are living well here.

this place was started with initiative by big-box church networks that have been in Lynchburg since Fallwell set up his mecca here. and so there are about 75 retired ministers and church administrators here (most in their 80s and 90s).

religion makes the world go round in Lynchburg VA.

we'll see where it goes should Liberty U have a hiccup and have to reorganize.

My prediction: nothing will be apparent until it is. We have a lot of unknown unknowns out there tonight.

If Trump is pulling 30-40,000 revved up Republicans 2-3x/day across key constituencies and if Obama, Biden et al are getting Dunkin Donut crowds that is a big tell. Anger sometimes doesn't translate into votes and the Republicans are the happy warriors this year.

I think I’m just going to go to bed now and pray that when I wake up in the morning, I’m not reading about how thoroughly fucked our country is, and having to tune out all my friends, most of my family, a majority of my coworkers, and all media for the next several weeks.